Théo Metais is a french Berlin-based contemporary painter whose work explores themes of journey, impermanence, and inner transformation. Informed by a decade-long career as a film journalist, his visual language draws on the narrative power of cinema and the expressive potential of painting and illustration. Working primarily in monochrome, he employs charcoal, oil paint, and various printmaking techniques to reinterpret photographic sources into evocative compositions that merge figuration and landscape. Through his refined use of blur and motion, his work invites quiet reflection on memory, movement, and the passage of time.
He is currently an artist-in-residence at Burnt Sienna Art School. His work will be exhibited at Backhaus Projects in a duo exhibition in October.
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Born in 1991 in Niort, France
Resides and works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2025 - Werkstatt Künstlerische Lithographie
2025 - Paris School of Fine Arts “Un Autre Atelier” (correspondence course)
2024 - 2025 - Burnt Sienna Art school Berlin
2023 - 2024 - Berlin School for Comics & Illustration
2019 - 2025 - New Master Academy (correspondence course)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
October 2025 - Silencio, Backhaus Projects, Berlin (duo exhibition)
September 2025 - Kunst Salat, Studio4000, Berlin
September 2025 - Anemoia, Backhaus Projects, Berlin
November 2024 - Dwelling places, Art space in Exile, Berlin
September 2023 - Vagabund Brauerei Kesselhaus, Berlin
RESIDENCY
2024 - 2025, Residency Burnt Sienna Art school Berlin
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
September 2025 - Artist talk, Burnt Sienna Art School, Berlin Germany
August 2025 - Artist talk & painting workshop for students, Burnt Sienna Art School, Berlin Germany
Artwork leased to music productions:
2023 - “L’homme Vase” on the berlin based music label {CURRENT_LIAISON}